Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Keith Alan Brough
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The Virtues of Pennyroyal is the tale of Bernard Mason, a con artist and amateur musician whose debts force him to quit London on a trade ship bound for the anonymous safety of colonial Massachusetts. He surfaces in the burgeoning village of Barnstable, where he quickly ingratiates himself with the devout...
Satan and Salem
The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem witch trials of 1692 took a breathtaking toll on the young English colony of Massachusetts. Over 150 people were imprisoned, and nineteen men and women, including a minister, were executed by hanging....
Community without Consent
New Perspectives on the Stamp Act
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together essays from a broad range of disciplines to provide a thoroughly original investigation of the influence of 1760s British tax legislation on colonial culture, and vice versa. While earlier scholarship has...
Frontiers of Science
Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often...
The Story of French New Orleans
History of a Creole City
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last...
The Lord Cornbury Scandal
The Politics of Reputation in British America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figure, whose alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects by parading through the streets of New York City dressed...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he was elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under...
History of Religious Liberty, The
From Tyndale to Madison
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Early American advocates of freedom did not believe in religious liberty in spite of their Christianity, but explicitly because of their individual faith in Christ, which had been molded and instructed by the Bible. The greatest evidence of their commitment to liberty can be found in their willingness...
Memoirs of an American Lady
With Sketches of American Manners and Scenery Prior to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
"Memoirs of an American Lady" is an autobiographical account of Anne Grant's time spent in America, combined with a biography of Catalina Schuyler, a member of a prominent New York family and Anne's earliest and most valued friend. The author describes her own idyllic childhood in pre-Revolutionary...
by Mary Stanard
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
The year 1676 dawned upon troublous scenes in Virginia. Being a time when men were wont to see in every unusual manifestation of Nature the warning shadow cast ahead by some coming event, the colonists darkly reminded each other how the year past had been marked by three "Prodigies." The...
El juicio de las brujas de Salem
El diablo coloniza América
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el juicio de las brujas de Salem, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Analizar la caza de brujas que tuvo lugar en Salem a finales del siglo XVII, el contexto...
by Kathryn Hinds
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Presents a glimpse of everyday colonial life by examining the daily life on the settlements.
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
New Netherland was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod while the settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States...
Enclosure
Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Gary Fields examines the dispossession of Palestinians from their land—and Israel’s rationale for seizing control of Palestinian land—in the contexts of a broad historical analysis of power and space...